Monday, May 2, 2005, El Cerrito, CA --
FFE Software, Inc.
announced immediate availability of FirstSQL/J Enterprise Edition, Version 3.00
and FirstSQL/J Professional Edition, Version 3.00.
The Enterprise and Professional Editions are full featured Object/Relational
Database Management Systems (ORDBMSs).
Both products are available through our
Download Page.

FFE hailed the new release as a major step in bringing FirstSQL/J to the
highest level among top enterprise DBMSs.
Working with their primary customers, FFE Software significantly
improved its enterprise features and usability as well as compatibility with
J2EE and high-level interfaces such as Hibernate.
In addition, the new ODBC 3 driver reaches out to a wide array of
applications and tools implemented in a variety of languages.

Lee Fesperman, CEO of FFE Software, stated,
"Version 3.00 offers important enterprise and usability features.
And, the new ODBC driver greatly increases the range of systems
that will work with the ORDBMS."

3.00 Details
The new Version 3.00 includes the following enhancements:

Database Triggers -- implemented in Java,

Sequence Keys -- auto-increment columns also known as
identity or surrogate keys,

Constraint Improvements --

CHECK constraints

Constraint names

ADD/DROP constraints, and

ODBC 3 Driver for Enterprise Server -- available separately from
the company.

Used from embedded systems to the enterprise, with single user and server versions

High performance, scaleable operation

JDBC 3 and ODBC 3 drivers

Tools and utilities

The Company
FFE Software has been in the database business for 16 years
and is a pioneer in Object/Relational DBMSs.
It develops and markets FirstSQL database products.
FFE first released its advanced FirstSQL/J ORDBMS in early 2000.